Dish-drainer



W. B. WILLS. DISH DRAINERQ APPLICATION FILED JAN-26, I92].

Patented July 12, 1921.

"UNITED STATES WALTER B. WILLS, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

DISH-DRAINEB.

To all-whom it may concern Be it known that I, WALTER B. WILLs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements' in Dish-Drainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices employed for supporting dishes and the like in position to allow the water to drain off the same after they have been washed, and its object is to provide a very simple and inexpensive device of this kind which is constructed entirely of wire, and which supports a large number of dishes in the most favorable position for drainage of the water therefrom.

With the object stated in view, the invention consists in a novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification. c

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of the device; Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a crosssection showing a slightly modified structure.

Referring specifically to the drawing, the device is in the nature of a wire basket having an open top. The bottom of the basket is formed of a plurality of spaced transverse parallel wire strands 5, and longitudinal spaced parallel wire strands 6, preferably four in number, extending at right angles across the former. The strands 5 are bent upwardly at their ends, as shown at 7, to form the open-work sides of the basket, and the strands 6 are similarly bent, as shown at 8, to form the open-work ends of the basket. At the top, the bends 7 and 8 are connected by a heavier piece of wire which is bent into rectangular contour to define the ends 9 and the sides 10 of the basket at the top and to form the edge of the latter. Fig. 2 shows the bends 7 curved outwardly at the top, whereas in Fig. 3 they are shown straight throughout their entire length.

Each of the wires 5 (as shown in Figs. 2 and 8), between the upward projecting portions 7, 7 thereof, is provided with two upward-bent and arched portions 5*, 5 ris- -Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 12, 1921-.

Application filedlf'anuary 26, 1921. serial fio. 439,969.

rows of dishes, this being done by dividing it lengthwise into what may be termed two compartments. To obtain these two compartments, two of the longitudinal wires 6 are disposed so as to intersect at right angles the bridge portions 5 of the wires 5, at points near the ends of such bridge portions, these two wires 6, 6 being, therefore, adjacent the longitudinal center line of the hasket; and the other two longitudinal wires 6, 6 are disposed so as to intersect the arched portions 5, 5 of the wires 5 near the outer ends of said arched portions, at points below the plane of the two wires 6, 6 intersecting the bridge portions 5 The arrangement is such that the distance between the two longitudinal wires 6, 6 at the longitudinal center of the basket, is much less than the distance between these two longitudinal wires and the remaining two longitudinal wires 6, 6. The wires 5 extending between the side portions 10 of the top wire forming the rim of the basket are uniformly spaced, and their spacing is such that the plates to be drained may be placed between two adjacent wire strands. Two plates may be positioned between two adjacent wires 5, one in the compartment on one side of the center line of the basket, and one in the compartment on the opposite side of said center line.

Referring to Fig. 2, it will be noted that the bottom of the basket is elevated so that only the outer ends 5, 5 of the arched portions 5 of the wires 5 come in contact with the surface on which the basket seats.

By arranging the bottom wires as hereinbefore described, the dishes seating at their bottom edges on the said wires have a natural tendency to tilt over toward the sides 10 of the basket, the group on one side of the center line tilting toward one side, and the group on the other side of the center line tilting to the opposite side. This arrangement enables a large number of dishes to be readily placed in the basket and removed therefrom after they have drained. The

dishes in each group or row are also spaced from each other by the arched portion 5 of the cross wires, 5, 5.

I claim:

A dish-draining, Wire basket having an upper rim of heavy Wire, a bottom comprising transversely-extending, spaced, parallel Wires, each having two arched por 4110118, each'two arched portions belng connected by a straight portion; said bottom comprising, also, four longitudinally-extending, parallel, spaced Wires, two thereof intersecting said straight portions near the ends thereof and the remaining twolongitudinal Wires intersecting said arched p0rtion near the outer ends thereof, at points below'the plane ofthestraight portion, the outer ends of said transversely and longitudinally extending Wires being bent up- Wardly and secured to said rim as and for 20 the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I aifiX my signature. 7

WALTER B. WILLS. 

